CURRICULAM VITAE Name Bijay Kumar Pokhrel Current position Ph.D. student of Agricultural Economics at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA Address for 3450 Nicholson Dr, Apartment No. 1049 correspondence Zip: 70802, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA Email: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Cell.no. 225-916-7873 Key Qualification Mr. Bijay Kumar Pokhrel has over 20 years of professional experiences in different disciplines of Civil Engineering namely: Irrigation, Road, Building, Water Supply and Sanitation, and Hydrology. In these disciplines, he has involved in project planning, design, estimate and construction supervision, monitoring and evaluation, contractor and consultant hiring, research works etc. Now Mr. Pokhrel is a Ph.D. student of Agricultural Economics at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, He has served government of Nepal as a senior divisional hydrologist in the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology. He has comprehensive experiences in hydro-meteorology and involving in hydrological evaluation, covering Deterministic and Stochastic hydrology, with particular expertise in water resources planning, flood estimation, rainfall intensity and flood frequency analysis, rainfall- runoff hydrological modeling, flood forecasting, flood zoning, reservoir sedimentation, spillway design flood estimation and evaluation, Hydropower design flood estimation and evaluation, design, estimate and supervision of civil works. Similarly, Hydro-meteorological network design, hydro-meteorological data collection, processing and publication, GIS and Remote Sensing. Mr. Pokhrel was involved as a resource person of DHM for the research work namely "Impact of Climate Change on Snow and Glacier at Nepalese Himalaya" was carried out with the IRD, France and Nagoya University, of Japan. Mr. Pokhrel was a key person for joint research work with WWf Nepal and DHM for Impact of Climate change on surface flow of Koshi Basin of Nepal. Mr. Pokhrel has involved as a consultant for different works like: development of image processing facility, GLOF assessment and mitigation study, preparation of Bathymetric map of different lakes, residential building design, irrigation study etc. From June to September 2010, Mr. pokhrel was involved as a research assistant in the Hydrosciences Laboratory, Montpellier 2 University, France and his responsibilities were to build database by using Hydraccess software, download and treatment of MODIS data by using ARCGIS, use of SRM (Snow Melt Runoff Model) and GR4J-Cemaneign models in the Nepalese catchment and writing scientific paper. From May to September 2011 and June to July 2012, Mr. Pokhrel was employed by SHELADIA ASSOCIATES INC.-USA at Herat, Afghanistan as a River Basin Modeler/Hydrologist and his responsibilities were to build database, use HEC-HMS and HEC-ResSim hydrological models in the Hari Rud Basin of western Afghanistan, and train Project Management Unit Engineers about hydrological modeling. 1 Mr. Pokhrel, has worked as a trainer for technicians and researchers many times, organized by different institutions, in hydrological modeling and hydrology related works. Education: Master of Science ( M.Sc.) in Engineering Hydrology from National University Ireland Galway, Ireland , 2000. Thesis: Low flow frequency Analysis. Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Civil Engineering from Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk, Lalitpur, Nepal,1993. Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) from Trichandra Multipul Campus , kathmandu, Nepal, 1988. Training / Workshop Training course on Flood Forecasting and Management using MIKE 11 model at Institute of Water Modelling (IWM), Bangladesh held on 9-21 January, 2011. International Symposium on Benefitting from Earth Observation: Bridging the Data Gap for Adoptation to Climate Change in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region, from 4-6 October 2010, ICIMOD,Kathmandu, Nepal. Knowledge-Sharing workshop on Flash Floods in the Himalayas, State of the Art in Flash Flood Risk management from 15-16 February 2010, ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal. Knowledge-Sharing workshop on climate adaptation,'From the Mountains to the Sea: Adapting to Climate Change'at WWF-India Secretariat,New Delhi, from 23-24 November 2009. Snow and Glacier Runoff Modelling in the Himalayas, 24-28 August 2009, ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal. Remote Sensing ERDAS Imagine training from 9th to 20th February 2009 at Soya Mega Soft, Bhatbhateni Nepal. Training Workshop on River Basin Information System (RBIS) and DANUBIA Hydrological Modelling for Upper Brahmaputra Basin, 24-28 November 2008, Kathmandu, ICIMOD Nepal. International Conference on Hydrology and Climate Change in Mountainous Areas, November 15-17, Kathmandu, Nepal,SOHAM Nepal. 10th International Symposium on High Mountain Remote Sensing Cartography ( HMRSC- X), September 8-11,2008, ICIMOD, Kathmandu. Training course in Tracer Hydrology from 27 march-1April 2008, Kathmandu, organized by Federal Office for Environment Ministry for Environmet, Traffic, Energy and Communication, Switzerland and Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, Nepal 2 Remote Sensing Training (ERDAS-IMAGINE) from 1-7 February 2008, Kathmandu, organized by Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, Nepal Regional Training Workshop on Flash Flood Risk Management in Himalayas from 1-10 August, 2007, organized by International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development ( ICIMOD)Nepal. Distributed Hydrological Model BTOPMC/YHyM2006, 15-16 January 2007, Kofu, Japan, Organized by University of Yamanshi, Kofu, Japan. Inclusive Econimic Development Trough Project Planning, Implementation and Capacity Building, July 18 – 25 August 2006, Organized by Ministry of Finance Government of Nepal and Nepal Administrative Staff College. South Asian Regional Training Workshop on Watershed Modelling, 7-18 March, 2005, Islamabad,Pakistan, organized by Global Change Impact Studies Centre and Pakistan Meteorological department. Application of Geo-Informatics For Water Resources Management, 17 - 28 March , 2003 organized by International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development ( ICIMOD) Nepal. Geographic Information System ( GIS), 24 – 5 October 2001,Lalitpur, Nepal,organized by National Society of Geo- Information Science/ UnitedNations Environment program/Environment Assessment Program-Asia Pacific/ National Information TechnologyInstitute (NITI), Lalitpur, Nepal Rating, Hydro, q Programming, Tideda computer programming Training, 4 weeks , September-october, 1997, Kathmandu, Nepal, organized by Department of Hydrology and Meteorology,Kathmandu, Nepal. Project formulation in association with KFW, Germany, 2 weeks , August 1996, Kathmandu, Nepal ,organized by Town development FoundBoard, Kathmandu, Nepal. MS-Window Training, 9 weeks, May 1996, Dhangadhi,Dist. Kailali"Zone: Seti Nepal. Organized by Technical Computer Training Centre"Dhangadhi,Dist. Kailali"Zone: Seti Nepal. Self Learned: AutoCad2000, MatLab ,FORTRAN & Visual Basic Programming. LANGUAGES: S.No. Language Speaking Reading Writing 1 Nepali(Native) Excellent Excellent Excellent 2 English Good Excellent Good 3 3 Hindi Good Good Good Honors and Awards Winner of the Irish Government Fellowship Award for pursuing M.Sc. (Hydrology) in Ireland. Winner of the His Majesty’s Government of Nepal Fellowship Award for pursuing B.E.(Civil)in Nepal. Membership Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Southern Agricultural Economics Association (SAEA) Nepal Engineers' Association Nepal Engineering Council ( Reg. no. 3140, Civil, A category) International Association of Hydrological Sciences Society of Hydrologists and Meteorologists Experience Record Organisation : Department of Hydrology and Meteorology ( DHM ) River Hydrology section ( from 2010 April to April 2013) Position / Designation : Senior Divisional Hydrologist, In-charge of snow and glacier section. Main task included: to implement and carry out all works related to this section i.e. Design, estimate,construction supervision and Monitoring and Evaluation of civil engineering works. Participate in seminar, workshop, training, talk program representing department, to run snow station, collection of data, processing and publication. To involve in the research activities. Organisation : Department of Hydrology and Meteorology ( DHM ) River Hydrology section ( from 2007 July to 2010 April) Position / Designation : Hydrologist Engineer, responsible for to carry out all civil engineering works including design, estimate, preparation tender document, contract award, construction supervision. Monitoring and evaluation of work. To run 181 Hydro-met stations of Nepal and data processing and publication, Main task includes: Design , estimate , construction supervision and Monitoring and Evaluation of gauging station, cableway, bank operating system, permanent gauging site, data collection and review, data processing and publishing, flood frequency analysis, rainfall intensity analysis, estimation of design discharge, flood modeling BTOPMC( Distributed Hydrological Model). Probable maximum Precipitation(PMP)and Probable maximum Flood (PMF) computation. Review and evaluate data collection networks and database systems. Technical resource for conducting training on discharge measurement by Indirect method (Slope area method).Planning, Management, Monitoring and Evaluation of development works. Budget preparation for the fiscal year. Actively involved as a resource person for effect of climate change in snow and glacier research work carried out